In ancient my country, there were cases of donating officials and buying and selling official positions in all dynasties in ancient China. Although these situations may solve some economic problems in the court, they are very unfavorable for the overall development of the court.
But there are exceptions in everything, and not all corrupt officials who enter the officialdom through this method are only corrupt officials who can only embezzle. There have also been some good officials under the donation system.
is just like during the Qing Dynasty period, which is the officialdom that was entered by donating officials.
At that time, his landlord's father saw that Li Wei was so idle that he bought him a job as an official. Unexpectedly, his ability was outstanding and he made a famous minister of a generation.
1. Young and frivolous, cat and dog
Li Wei was born in a landlord family. As the only male in the family, he was naturally very favored.
Although Li Wei's father has a lot of money and is even called a big landlord by the locals, he is not like the image of an unreasonable landlord bully we usually see in TV series.
He did not completely spoil Li Wei and made him a playboy, but instead put high hopes on Li Wei.
Li Wei's father hopes that Li Wei can become a knowledgeable and educated person, and he also hopes that Li Wei can enter the court to bring glory to his family through the imperial examination.
When Li Wei was very young, his family invited famous teachers to teach him and teach him his studies.
But Li Wei, whether before or after the teacher came, he would spend all day with a group of playboys to tease cats and dogs.
Not only that, he also went to various fireworks places. He can be said to be a full-blown playboy, completely contrary to his father's expectations for him.
Li Wei's development path when he was young was almost exactly the same as that of the general landlord's son, and he was involved in everything he had to eat, drink, go for example, and gambling.
It is precisely because Li Wei doesn't have to worry about his livelihood that he has made Li Wei have no ambition. Although his father has been urging behind his back, it is useless. Li Wei still acts like a playboy.
Li Wei's various behaviors made his father very anxious, after all, he had high hopes for his son.
Seeing his son doing nothing all day, Li Wei’s father did something that many ancient people would do, that is fortune telling.
He found a fortune teller and asked the other party to tell fortunes for his son. At that time, the fortune teller told Li Wei's father that Li Wei was a rich and noble life.
It was precisely because of the fortune teller that when the court came out to donate officials, Li Wei's father was willing to spend a lot of money to buy an official position for his son.
2. The landlord's son becomes an official
Li Wei's family is relatively wealthy, so the official position his father donated to him is not low, so he became a member of the Ministry of War as soon as he entered the officialdom.
But this official position is not high enough in the real court, but this is not that important because Li Wei himself is very capable.
He is also in his prime and is full of energy when he enters the officialdom.
With his own abilities, Li Wei was quickly promoted and was promoted to the position of doctor in the Ministry of Revenue two years after entering the officialdom.
It was already the fifty-eighth year of Kangxi. At this time, Kangxi had become a very old man. Although he could still manage all matters in the court, he himself was already plagued by illness.
For Kangxi at this time, there was nothing he needed to care about except for important affairs in the court, so the ministers in the court rarely made major changes after this.
. Li Wei’s position as a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue where he was in the Ministry of Revenue was not given a good deal or was highly valued by the emperor, he would not be able to get promotion when the emperor’s own energy was difficult to maintain.
Although Li Wei had a certain talent at this time, he was not outstanding enough to the extent that the emperor attached great importance to it, so Li Wei stayed in this position until Yongzheng ascended the throne.
Yongzheng was the fourth son of Emperor Kangxi. In his later years, the situation of several of his children fighting for the throne was very terrible.
The process of Kangxi's sons fighting for the throne was nicknamed " Nine Sons Fighting the Throne ", which caused the royal family to lose several excellent princes.
It can be said that before the final decree of Emperor Kangxi on who inherited the next emperor, no one thought that it would be Yongzheng's successor.
After all, among the many sons of Emperor Kangxi, his fourth son is the least visible and the most low-key person on weekdays.
This also shows from the indirection that when Emperor Yongzheng was a prince, he rarely cultivated his own power openly.
Li Wei experienced the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong throughout his life, but during the Kangxi period, Li Wei did not rise to a very high position.
It was not until Yongzheng took office that Li Wei was officially reused and entered a relatively important position.
After Yongzheng took office, because he was promoted too quickly, Yongzheng did not cultivate much power before he took office, so he began to vigorously cultivate his own power after he took office.
Li Wei, a person who had no background and entered the officialdom by donating officials, entered Yongzheng's sight.
Compared with other ministers in the court, Li Wei's way of donating officials to enter the officialdom shows that Li Wei has no involvement with other ministers in the court.
and he has the ability, so Yongzheng had no psychological pressure when he reused him, which allowed Li Wei to be selected by Yongzheng among the ministers.
3. The Yongzheng Dynasty had to reuse
So, before Yongzheng held the throne ceremony, he observed who could be reused by himself.
is obvious. Li Wei is among these people who can be reused, so Yongzheng couldn't wait to send Li Wei to Zhili to serve as a post mission when he first ascended the throne.
Perhaps some people will think that staying in the capital and becoming an official in one of the six ministries is a manifestation of high position being valued by the emperor.
But this is not the case. Although the Ministry of Revenue is also a relatively important department among the six ministries, the doctor of the Ministry of Revenue can only be called a idle position.
even if it goes further, it cannot grasp real power. The importance of the Ministry of Revenue cannot be compared with the Ministry of Personnel and some very important positions that work outside.
, and Zhili is a channel connecting the capital city and the outside. It can be said to be the gateway to the capital city. The emperor had to go to Zhili to check the situation every year, so the importance of Zhili is self-evident.
Yongzheng asked Li Wei to go to Zhili just to train his abilities and arrange him to a more important position, but before Li Wei could actually work in Zhili, he was sent to the Yanyi Road in Yunnan.
Although Yunnan was mostly called a barbarian land in ancient times, taking charge of Guanyan shows that this position is not simple.
Li Wei did not disappoint Yongzheng's expectations and made good achievements in this position.
It is precisely because of Li Wei's good performance that he was promoted to the governor in just one year. Although
is still working in Yunnan, its position has been greatly improved and is still in charge of salt-related work.
and The steward 's job is to control the finance and taxation of the whole province. Just like the tax bureaus of various provinces today, it has a high status in the province.
In the third year of Yongzheng, Li Wei was promoted to the governor of Zhejiang. In the fourth year of Yongzheng, the emperor gave Li Wei the position of the salt administration envoy of Zhejiang, and at this time Li Wei was still the governor of Zhejiang.
Smart people can find that the emperor handed over important posts in Zhejiang to Li Wei step by step, which also indicates that the emperor wanted to hand over Zhejiang to Li Wei completely.
As expected, in the fifth year of Yongzheng, Emperor Yongzheng appointed Li Wei as the governor of Zhejiang.
Becoming the governor of a province is a full recognition of a person's ability.
Although it is still a position of exile, it can already be called a rank of a rank, which is the rank of a rank of a rank that is often mentioned in TV dramas with ancient backgrounds.
From Yongzheng ascended the throne to the fifth year of Yongzheng, Li Wei was promoted from a free job in the Ministry of Revenue to a senior official in just five years. It can be seen that Yongzheng attaches great importance to him, which also reflects that Li Wei's ability is indeed very good.
Otherwise, even if the emperor intends to train, it would not be possible to have such a fast promotion speed.
4. Become a famous minister
After Li Wei entered Yongzheng's sight, he showed his ability, so his career went smoother, and he rose from a small doctor to a higher and higher.
After Li Wei gained Yongzheng's trust, he was sent by Yongzheng to investigate private salt .
When there was no today's salt refining method in ancient society, salt and iron could only be managed by the government, and anyone who privately sold salt and iron was illegal.
But because the profits between salt and iron were very large, they could be regarded as huge profits in society at that time, so even if the government investigated so strictly, there were still a large number of people who knew the law and violated the law. You can imagine how dangerous the job Li Wei took on was.
In feudal society, selling private salt and iron tools is illegal just like selling prohibited items in today's society.
Refer to the dangers of anti-drug police in modern society, and we can imagine the dangers of Li Wei when investigating private salt sales.
Moreover, many people who sell private salt rely on very powerful forces behind them, and they will inevitably offend the forces behind these people when investigating them.
But Li Wei was not afraid at all and truly became selfless when investigating private salt.
After Yongzheng's death, Qianlong ascended the throne, and the most outstanding ministers left by Yongzheng were valued by Qianlong.
Because Qianlong was taught by Yongzheng himself, Yongzheng himself did not sit on the throne for many years. He was one of the few short-lived emperors in the history of the Qing Dynasty, so Yongzheng began to cultivate power for Qianlong very early, which is also the reason why Li Wei was still valued by Emperor Qianlong.
Li Wei also worked hard for the second half of his life. It was not until the third year of Qianlong that Li Wei passed away due to illness.
After Li Wei's death, Qianlong mourned him with the highest etiquette he could do, and personally gave him a posthumous title, which shows how high Li Wei's status in Qianlong's heart.
Although Li Wei only served in the Qianlong Dynasty for three years, it could not offset the contribution Li Wei made to the Qing Dynasty.
Although Li Wei was a donor to the office, he served the three emperors of the Qing Dynasty with his own abilities and was also the three most famous emperors. Therefore, Li Wei's life can be called a legend.
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